Bizarre increase in page view numbers
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Does anyone know a possible explanation of an occasional massive increase in page views as shown in the stats and insights?
Normally 2 or 3 views a day (blog not very active!) then
Feb 24 – 7 visitors, 144 views
March 5 – 2, 276
March 6 – 3, 229Can’t think it is legitimate interest?
Some kind of bot…..?Just curious – thanks for any wisdom
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The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi –
There’s three different sites on the account. Which one are you seeing this behavior on?
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“The blog I need help with is gribinisaf.wordpress.com.”
eg
https://wordpress.com/stats/day/gribinisaf.wordpress.com?startDate=2020-03-06
now up to 509 views today!
Thanks
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That is quite the spike! And it looks like it’s mainly from one visitor, since your views aren’t really going up. I would imagine it is a bot crawling your site, though usually bots will tell us that’s what they are so we can take them out of your stats.
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We don’t track IPs. We can see this is from the UK though if that’s helpful.
Are you ordering any services or running any tests on your site?
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I’m afraid we don’t have more information for you but, since there’s no way in which this could harm your site, there also no need to worry :)
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Thanks for your input. I didn’t really expect staff response as I realised it was unlikely to be a threat. Good service!
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